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"I don’t think we’re going to have a grant, we’ll just see how it falls, and we’re interested in like what Josh Freese did with his record a few years back."

"We spend much more time on developing songs before we play live, whereas in the past we’d come up with an idea and we’d play it live and just work it out as we played."

"I think the reason they plucked me out of the ether to talk to people is only because I’m an old bastard that’s been living in the City of Yarra all my life."

"I’ve always wanted to have it all; I wanted to be able to play relatively effortlessly with great chops, but have great tone and great phrasing."

"I used to yell at my mom, when she wouldn’t let me do things, I’d go to my room and slam the door and yell: ‘I’m moving to Australia!’ I don’t know where the fuck I got it from; I was, like, apparently three years old."

"Loveless talks more about a specific time that I’ve spent over the last two or three years where I’ve found that I needed to push myself and find myself – my inner self – rather than things like falling in love with someone else."

Even though he has one packed schedule, we managed to catch up with the illusive Yuksek, to see how the last 12 months have been treating him.

"Next up was Canberra. It was a night for firsts; the first east coast show of the tour, the first show with beatmaker Willow Beats, and the first technical fuck up."

ABE ENJOYS A SUNDAY SESH is a monthly Sunday event held at Ching-a-Lings in Sydney. Music provided by PhDJ treated listeners with the following SET LIST.

"The Melbourne Sound 3.0 is just the product of another archaeological dig, except its progenitors have mined a seam of dance music’s past that those of us who endured it 15 years ago would rather forget."

"I went home, recorded it that day and submitted it to the label saying that I thought it would make a really good album opener – and that’s the version that ended up on the album, the one I wrote in my shed."

"Most of the album is about the age bracket when nothing matters and life revolved around going to school and going to dinner parties and being free. I want people to feel they are invited back."